Nanaco Sato

Nanaco Sato

nanaco / Nanaco / Nanaco Sato : photographer / singer 1955 born in Tokyo , Japan 1978 graduated KEIO univ. ( majored in sociology ) 1977 at the 4th grade of the univ., debut as a singer , released the first album , " Funny Walking " ( Nippon Colombia records ), and then 3 other solo albums" Sweet swinging "," Pillow Talk " , " Kissing fish " released in 2 years . 1980 Made up the new wave band named " Spy " . And released the album " Spy " produced by Kazuhiko Kato ( Victor Entertainment ) 1982 stopped music activities because of enormous interest in photography , started taking photographs . And shortly started working as a professional photographer, in the fileds of editorials and music CDs and so on . 1986 the photographs for the calendar of NISSAN motors, received the 1 st prize of the international calendar contest worked for advertisement like NISSAN " Blue Bird " catalog , NISSAN " SILVIA " TV commercial film , and a lot more . 1987 moved to France , lived in Paris for about 5 years , taking photographs and making short films . 1989 took an intermediate course of film making at New York univ. 1992 moved back to Japan started singing again . 1994 released the album " Fear and loving " ( Nippon Colombia records ) 1996 released the album " Love is a drug " ( Hyper disc in USA / EMI Japan ) world wide . " Love is a drug " was selected as the best single of the week of NME . 1998 released the album " Luminous love in 23 " produced by Simon Reymonde of Cocteau Twins. ( Bella union in England ) world wide . 2000 released the album " Sisters on the riverbed " recorded in New Orleans , produced by Mark Bingham ( riverbed records: nanaco 's private ) 2013 released the album " Old angel " ( licensed to disunion ) 2014 released self cover of Twiggy Twiggy . ( nanaco's private only through internet delivery ) 2016 sand the title music of the movie named " The nit of flower " , " FUKIGENA KAKO " directed by Shiro Maeda 2018 released the album " Golden Remedy " ( licensed to P-VINE Records ) 2018 released the album " Nioi " ( nanaco 's private ) Nioi means scent . The original music is all improv. recored in New York with Jesse Paris Smith on piano, Rebecca Foon on cello . and add 2 of the new tracks for the album . * Twiggy Twiggy is nanaco's song which she wrote for Maki Nomiya originally. When Maki Nomiya became the lead singer of Pizzicato Five , they covered the song and got a world hit . * Nanaco is also a professional photographer for commercials , editorial and album covers and so on . *Nanaco performs a lot lately and just started playing key boards .